The documentation needs a rewrite.

[SapphireSpire]

UE4 should not be this difficult to figure out. What’s holding me back most, I believe, is the documentation. I haven’t noticed any spelling errors but it’s not a smooth read. It’s full of logical errors, redundancies, bad grammar and syntax. Below is an example I took from here https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Blueprints/QuickStart/3/index.html.

Making changes inside the Blueprint means that each time you make a new launchpad, it will have the look and feel you have created in the Blueprint Editor. While you could duplicate your LaunchPad Actor around the level, any changes you make on a particular launchpad would only affect that one copy.

Now compare that with what I wrote below.

You can make copies of an actor around a level but any changes you make to one copy will not affect the other copies. On the previous page you converted the launchpad actor into a blueprint class called LaunchPad_Blueprint. All copies of the launchpad actor created with the launchpad blueprint will share the same appearance and behavior and any changes you make to the launchpad blueprint will effect all copies.

I can help if possible.

[teak421]

That is oddly worded! Have you reviewed Mathew’s youtube channel? It has a TON of excellent stuff to watch…also, the tutorials on Unreal Engine’s youtube are also good… Agreed, their documentation could use some love.

teak

[anonymous_user_89b5ed72]

Clearly not our best couple of sentences ever. We have implemented a multi-step review process to help ensure the quality of the writing is up to our standards, but there is quite a bit that was published prior to that which may not always meet those standards. I encourage you to let us know when you come across passages like this so we can look at improving them (and use them as learning experiences internally). Also, the source for the documentation is available on GitHub so you can submit your own updates that we will review and merge into the documentation.

Thanks for the feedback and let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.